The weirdest games in the world

French studio Quantic Dream went on to make PS3 hit Heavy Rain, and you can see the ideas begin to formulate in the innovative adventure game Fahrenheit (Xbox, PS2, PC; 2005). Like its spiritual successor, Fahrenheit takes an ‘interactive movie’ approach, and asks you to play out the more mundane scenes of its characters’ lives as well as the action-packed ones. Things get strange as you move past the half-way point, though, and what began as a murder mystery turns into a baffling supernatural tale involving the walking dead and hallucinations of space aliens. It perhaps wasn’t Quantic Dream’s smartest move: the game loses its way several hours before its messy conclusion.